TY - BOOK

T1 - Nomads and Monads

T2 - Fluxus as Infrastructure, Germany, Denmark and Holland, 1962-1966

AU - van der Meijden, Peter Alexander

PY - 2010

Y1 - 2010

N2 - The dissertation describes and analyses Fluxus acivities in Germany, Denmark and Holland during the period 1962-66. Its protagonists are Tomas Schmit, Wolf Vostell and Joseph Beuys (Germany), Arthur Køpcke, Eric Andersen and Henning Christiansen (Denmark) and Willem de Ridder and Wim T. Schippers (Holland), all eight local artists who first met Fluxus as a foreign (American) phenomenon and who who continued to represent Fluxus after its originator, George Maciunas, returned to the USA in late 1963. The main question that is addressed is, how these artists represented and developed Fluxus after Europe had moved from Fluxus' centre to its periphery and what this reveals about the way Fluxus functioned as a sociality. The underlying theme is the creation of community. The nomads and monads from the title represent two organisational modes: being together based on a whish to be together with other artists and being together as the result of a work of art. Both modes are defined with the help of the alternative organisational form that Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari describe in the Nomadology (1986) as the "War Machine". The word "infrastructure" in the subtitle of the dissertation refers to a general tendency in post-World War II art to create infrastructures - in the work of art as well as in other products (communal activity, book projects, various organisational forms) - that link artist and audience in a system of distribution and exchange.

AB - The dissertation describes and analyses Fluxus acivities in Germany, Denmark and Holland during the period 1962-66. Its protagonists are Tomas Schmit, Wolf Vostell and Joseph Beuys (Germany), Arthur Køpcke, Eric Andersen and Henning Christiansen (Denmark) and Willem de Ridder and Wim T. Schippers (Holland), all eight local artists who first met Fluxus as a foreign (American) phenomenon and who who continued to represent Fluxus after its originator, George Maciunas, returned to the USA in late 1963. The main question that is addressed is, how these artists represented and developed Fluxus after Europe had moved from Fluxus' centre to its periphery and what this reveals about the way Fluxus functioned as a sociality. The underlying theme is the creation of community. The nomads and monads from the title represent two organisational modes: being together based on a whish to be together with other artists and being together as the result of a work of art. Both modes are defined with the help of the alternative organisational form that Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari describe in the Nomadology (1986) as the "War Machine". The word "infrastructure" in the subtitle of the dissertation refers to a general tendency in post-World War II art to create infrastructures - in the work of art as well as in other products (communal activity, book projects, various organisational forms) - that link artist and audience in a system of distribution and exchange.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Fluxus

KW - Eric Andersen

KW - Henning Christiansen

KW - Arthur Køpcke

KW - Willem de Ridder

KW - Wim T. Schippers

KW - Tomas Schmit

KW - Wolf Vostell

KW - Joseph Beuys

KW - Infrastruktur

KW - Heterotopi

KW - George Maciunas

KW - Fluxus

KW - Eric Andersen

KW - Henning Christiansen

KW - Arthur Køpcke

KW - Willem de Ridder

KW - Wim T. Schippers

KW - Tomas Schmit

KW - Wolf Vostell

KW - Joseph Beuys

KW - Infrastructure

KW - Heterotopia

KW - George Maciunas

M3 - Ph.D. thesis

BT - Nomads and Monads

PB - Museum Tusculanum

ER -